Lost access to volume due to connectivity issues.
Hello I have problem with my ESXI 5.1!My hardware is Supermicro Server 2xE5520 with 48G RAM and 8 Hard drives connected to Supermicro H8iR Raid controller that is same as LSI 9260-8i And few times per...
View ArticleRDM issue within same ESXi
Hi All, Could any one help me with the issue ,I am facing issue with RDM as I am unable to map a single lun to two vms on a single esxi as the RDM option is greyed out in the 2nd vm once it...
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ESXi 5.1: vmsvc warning guestinfo RecordRoutingInfo: Unable to collect IPv4...
Hi, we have two RHEL6.3 VMs which need 15 minutes to boot!The problem happens when starting the network interfaces in vmsvc. Host: ESXi 5.1, latest 5.1 tools from repo installed, two vmxnet3 interfaces...
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vMotion not utilizes multi nics at higher latency?
Hello, sirs.I'm configuring multi-NIC vMotion for my lab and I bumped strange issue.Usually multi-NIC vMotion works as expected (8 out of10).Both source/destination hosts utilize couple of pNIC, and...
View ArticleWhat are the free ESXi / vSphere 5.1 Hypervisor hardware requirements /...
Situation: I'm going to upgrade a couple web servers where I'm currently running the free version of ESXi/vSphere 4.0. When 5.0 came out, I decided not to look at VMware's newer versions because of...
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esxtop shows double receive rate on Broadcom 57800 - 10Gb
Normally we use several 1 Gb NIC’s in a Trunk (etherchannel) and “Route based on IP hash” as load balancing policy. Our new Dell Power Edge R720 contains a Broadcom 57800 NIC. This one exists of two...
View ArticleCom port redirector for ESXi5
HelloI need to redirect the com port from a Windows 2008 VM to a serial device. Has anyone been successful doing this and what have you used? I have purchased a Lantronix EDS4100 device to provide the...
View ArticleESXi Crash - No PSOD
Hi All I am looking for some suggestions on what may be the cause of a crash that has happen several times now. All guests go unresponsive at the same time. The ESXi console it’s self functions...
View ArticleVM Nic Sleeping
VMWare 5VM - Windows 2008 R2 64bitNetwork Adapter - VMXNET 3 We just set up a new server a few weeks ago. For some reasone the NIC seems to be going to sleep, we can't ping, attach to the server, or...
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Adding recovered esxi host to "datastores" and "heartbeating"
Dear all, I'm new here and I greet you all. There was a crash of motherboard of one of the blade at my VMWare infasturcture. The blade has been repaired and VMWare host is back - esxi03. There are 3...
View ArticleESXI 5.1 PCI-E Modem Pass through Questions
Hello I'm fairly new to VMWare and while I've searched the Internet and VMWare community forums most of what I'm turning up is that PCI-E modem pass through is not possible and to use a solution that...
View ArticleVMware Update Manager for 5.x
Hi. Could someone clarify as to whether or not vUM will patch the VMs guest (Windows) OS? If not, what's the alternative (other than the normal route for Windows OS VMs). Thanks.
View ArticleSnapshots files not removed after cosolidation
So I have consolidated all snapshots in on one of my machines ,using the create snapshot then delete all snapshots . but when I look in directory still see snapshot files, any idea how to remove them...
View ArticleVDS question
Can you move diistributed switches from from vCenter server to another one without having any down time. im using version 5.0
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Migration of hosts from vcenter - HA question
Hey Guys, Now I know beyond doubt that HA will work when vcenter is offline. However what about when I am migrating it to a new vcenter. I am moving a cluster from vcenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1. Now this...
View ArticleHow to move VM created on eSX 5.0 to 4.0 environment
We have a VM running on 5.0 that we want to move over to an environment that is running 4.0, does anyone know the best way to move that image over?
View ArticleSetting performance
HI,I have a HP Proliant DL180 server with the following characteristics Raid 1 250GB HDD with 16GB Ram and a 2.4GHz Xeon processor when you install VMware ESXi 5 and two virtual environments on this...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 and Qnap TS-879-RPU FW:3.7.3 and Freeze
Hi, have here a 2 host, same configuration, one with a 10Gbit iSCSI attached Exomium box and one with a 10Gbit iSCSI QNAP TS-879 box (direct attached).Have installed 6 Hitachi 2TB HDD in the QNAP. Did...
View ArticleDesign a Multi Environment for Test DEV and Prod
I aa researching for ideas how to design a modern vmware environment for windows 2012.As windows 2012 has no the functionality to clone active directories, could this help to build one orginal...
View ArticleMultiple Guests Crash
Hi All, I have a single ESXi 5 host running a coupe of VMs. I have recently experienced 3 crash type situations. Although I can still access the host. The symptoms are as follows: All guests a mixture...
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